Current Issues Survey Report, 2007

© 2008 Debra H. Allison, Peter B. DeBlois, and the eDuCAuse Current Issues Committee The ninth annual EDUCAUSE Current Issues Survey results show a good deal of movement among the most critical challenges facing campus information technology leaders in 2008.1 Thirty-two percent (589) of 1,845 EDUCAUSE primary member representatives responded to an e-mail invitation to complete the web-based survey in December 2007. Table 1 shows the institutional demographic breakdown of respondents. Survey participants were asked to check up to 5 of 31 issues in response to each of four questions (see Tables 2 and 3). Each year, the Current Issues Committee tries to develop a survey instrument that balances issues across time with (a) emerging, less-relevant, and receding issues; (b) converged issues that no longer make sense to separate; (c) split issues that are too complex to continue as one; and (d) changes in the evolving IT nomenclature. For 2008, the committee introduced the following changes to issues and subtopics.2